Autograph Letter Signed ('Edw. Foss') from Edward Foss, author of 'The Judges of England', regarding the prosecutor of King Charles I, John Cook [Cooke], Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth. With page of extracts on Cook by the recipient.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium, with Foss's letter (33 lines) on both sides of the first leaf, and the page of extracts by the recipient (38 lines) on the recto of the second leaf. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with one corner of the first leaf cut away. The letter is addressed to 'My dear Sir', without any indication of the recipient's identity. Foss begins: 'It is so long ago since I studied the Rebellion, that I forget what I may have learned relative to John Cooke, he never having been an English Judge, and therefore not falling within my design.' He follows this with information relating to Cooke and Edmund Prideaux, to his appointment as a Justice of the Upper Bench in Ireland, and to his betrayal, with references to Whitelocke's Memorials and the State Trials. The third page of the bifolium carries four extracts from 'Ludlow's Memoirs, small folio 1751'.